Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4541
מַסֵּכָה
massekahmas-say-kaw'
liquid; veil
28 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: maççêkâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4541is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 14 of 39Old Testament books
- 19spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4541
properly, a pouring over, i.e. fusion of metal (especially a cast image); by implication, a libation, i.e. league; concretely a coverlet (as if poured out)
The King James renders it: covering, molten (image), vail.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
massekah is rendered "liquid; veil". It stands 28 times in the Hebrew text, across fourteen books.
- Five of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "liquid".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 32:4He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
- The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.
The first use
He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
Exodus 32:4מַסֵּכָ֑ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in fourteen of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: liquid, and veil.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| liquidStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereExodus 32:4He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten… |
| veilStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- molten metal6
- a molten image4
- and a molten image4
- and the molten images2
- the molten image2
- to a molten image2
- a libation1
- and molten image1
- and molten images1
- and the blanket1
- and the woven stuff1
- molten image of1
and 2 more, 28 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 28, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
19 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מַסֵּכָ֖ה4
- מַסֵּכָ֑ה3
- הַמַּסֵּכָ֑ה2
- וְהַמַּסֵּכָ֥ה2
- וּמַסֵּכָ֔ה2
- מַסֵּכָ֔ה2
- וְהַמַּסֵּכוֹת֙1
- וְהַמַּסֵּכֽוֹת׃1
- וּמַסֵּכָ֜ה1
- וּמַסֵּכָ֑ה1
- וּמַסֵּכָ֛ה1
- וּמַסֵּכוֹת֙1
and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular10HNcfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular5HC/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural2HC/Td/Ncfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular2HC/Td/Ncfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular2HR/Ncfsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular2HTd/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural1HC/Ncfpa
- noun · feminine dual1HNcfda
- noun · feminine plural1HNcfpa
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HNcfpc/Sp3mp
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
Exodus
three uses
He took the gold from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, “These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”
- מַסֵּכָ֑הmasekhahnoun · feminine singulartagged: molten metal
How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”
- מַסֵּכָ֑הmasekhahnoun · feminine singulartagged: molten metal
You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.
- מַסֵּכָ֖הmasekhahnoun · feminine singulartagged: molten metal
Leviticus
one use
Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten gods. I am the LORD your God.
- מַסֵּכָ֔הmasekhahnoun · feminine singulartagged: molten metal
Numbers
one use
you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.
- מַסֵּֽכֹתָם֙masekhotamnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: molten metal their
Deuteronomy
three uses
And the LORD said to me, “Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted themselves. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.”
- מַסֵּכָֽה׃masekhahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a molten image
And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.
- מַסֵּכָ֑הmasekhahnoun · feminine singulartagged: molten metal
‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- וּמַסֵּכָ֜הumasekhahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a molten image
Judges
five uses
And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to you.”
- וּמַסֵּכָ֔הumasekhahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a molten image
So he returned the silver to his mother, and she took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a silversmith, who made them into a graven image and a molten idol. And they were placed in the house of Micah.
- וּמַסֵּכָ֔הumasekhahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a molten image
Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their brothers, “Did you know that one of these houses has an ephod, household gods, a graven image, and a molten idol? Now think about what you should do.”
- וּמַסֵּכָ֑הumasekhahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a molten image
And the five men who had gone to spy out the land went inside and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, while the priest stood at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred armed men.
- הַמַּסֵּכָ֑הhamasekhahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the molten image
When they entered Micah’s house and took the graven image, the ephod, the household idols, and the molten idol, the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”
- הַמַּסֵּכָ֑הhamasekhahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the molten image
1 Kings
one use
You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.
- וּמַסֵּכוֹת֙umasekhotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and molten images
2 Kings
one use
They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They bowed down to all the host of heaven and served Baal.
- מַסֵּכָ֖הmasekhahnoun · feminine dualtagged: a molten image
2 Chronicles
three uses
Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even made cast images of the Baals.
- מַסֵּכ֛וֹתmasekhotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: molten images
In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images.
- וְהַמַּסֵּכֽוֹת׃vehammasekhotconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and the molten images
Then in his presence the altars of the Baals were torn down, and he cut to pieces the incense altars that were above them. He shattered the Asherah poles, the carved idols, and the cast images, crushed them to dust, and scattered them over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
- וְהַמַּסֵּכוֹת֙vehammasekhotconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and the molten images
Nehemiah
one use
Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies,
- מַסֵּכָ֔הmasekhahnoun · feminine singulartagged: molten metal
Psalms
one use
At Horeb they made a calf and worshiped a molten image.
- לְמַסֵּכָֽה׃lemasekhahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to a molten image
Isaiah
five uses
On this mountain He will swallow up the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations;
- וְהַמַּסֵּכָ֥הvehammasekhahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the woven stuff
Indeed, the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the blanket too small to wrap around you.
- וְהַמַּסֵּכָ֥הvehammasekhahconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the blanket
“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
- מַסֵּכָ֖הmasekhahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a libation
So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”
- מַסֵּכַ֣תmasekhatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: molten image of
But those who trust in idols and say to molten images, ‘You are our gods!’ will be turned back in utter shame.
- לְמַסֵּכָ֖הlemasekhahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to a molten image
Hosea
one use
Now they sin more and more and make for themselves cast images, idols skillfully made from their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. People say of them, “They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves!”
- מַסֵּכָ֨הmasekhahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a molten image
Nahum
one use
The LORD has issued a command concerning you, O Nineveh: “There will be no descendants to carry on your name. I will cut off the carved image and cast idol from the house of your gods; I will prepare your grave, for you are contemptible.”
- וּמַסֵּכָ֛הumasekhahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and molten image
Habakkuk
one use
What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it—or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
- מַסֵּכָ֖הmasekhahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a molten image
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
